They are making a handsome contribution to the development of the country's permanent assets.

Preference will be given to opportunities that create jobs now and leave permanent assets.

The primary reason for this prediction is that the Barcelona organizers plan to use much of the money they raise to build new facilities that will become permanent assets after the Olympics.

Mr. Ortner should have pointed out that, to a great extent, the result of the inflow of foreign goods is that we are buying relatively short-lived items, while the foreigners are using our dollars to purchase more permanent assets.

This policy indicated that princes were ceasing to regard their demesnes, those ragbags of rights and scattered pieces of land, chiefly as means of buying support, whether on earth or in heaven, and were viewing them instead as permanent assets, to be cultivated in a more business-like fashion.